{"id":37945,"date":"2026-08-11T04:51:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=37945"},"modified":"2026-08-11T04:51:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:51:34","slug":"cnns-daniel-dale-drops-scalding-fact-check-on-trumps-vaccines-and-autism-claims-hes-said-it-over-and-over-falsely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=37945","title":{"rendered":"CNN\u2019s Daniel Dale Drops Scalding Fact Check on Trump\u2019s Vaccines and Autism Claims: He\u2019s Said it \u2018Over and Over, Falsely\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5749862\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5749862\" class=\"wp-image-5749862 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/am13.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/08\/eo.jpeg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\/RFK Jr.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5749862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(AP Photo\/Jacquelyn Martin)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>CNN fact-checker <strong>Daniel Dale<\/strong> dropped a scalding take on President <strong>Donald Trump&#8217;s<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/trump-signs-sweeping-order-to-overhaul-childhood-vaccines-vats-of-vaccine-are-currently-pumped-into-your-childs-body\/\">unfounded claims<\/a> linking childhood <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-childhood-vaccines-executive-order\/\">vaccines with autism.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump made the statements during an executive order signing Monday that splits up the Measels, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) childhood vaccines into three separate shots. Trump has repeatedly claimed that the current federal guideline of one MMR shot provides too much medicine for a child&#8217;s body to process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Trump moments ago, again: &#8216;I saw this early on and I&#8217;ve seen proof of it &#8211; where they have a vaccination (that) looks like the size of a bottle of soda poured into a little child&#8217;s body,&#8217;&#8221; Dale wrote. &#8220;In reality, childhood vaccine doses are a small fraction of a teaspoon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dale continued, &#8220;This wasn&#8217;t one-time hyperbole or something. The president has said over and over, falsely, that American babies are given vaccine doses the size of a glass or vat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed_container\" id=\"5b23e2aa97a54474ce5ea1bf4040af3d\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This wasn&#039;t one-time hyperbole or something. The president has said over and over, falsely, that American babies are given vaccine doses the size of a glass or vat.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tRH6tZYz7P\">https:\/\/t.co\/tRH6tZYz7P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daniel Dale (@ddale8) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ddale8\/status\/2086893896622092596?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;President Trump repeats his usual false claim that the prevalence of childhood autism &#8220;20 years ago&#8221; was &#8220;1 in 10,000.&#8221; The CDC website shows the known prevalence 20 years ago was 1 in 110,&#8221; Dale wrote, including a link to CDC autism data.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed_container\" id=\"d4e26fe54796793d9763828bf362e017\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Trump repeats his usual false claim that the prevalence of childhood autism &quot;20 years ago&quot; was &quot;1 in 10,000.&quot; The CDC website shows the known prevalence 20 years ago was 1 in 110. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ywXGyhxbBb\">https:\/\/t.co\/ywXGyhxbBb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daniel Dale (@ddale8) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ddale8\/status\/2086896247873347975?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Trump said, &#8216;In many cases, we were requiring 72 jabs for a beautiful, healthy, lovely, delicate little children,&#8217;&#8221; Dale wrote, adding, &#8220;He didn&#8217;t explain where he got that &#8217;72,&#8217; but experts have said it appears to separately count every possible dose of a flu vaccine and Covid vaccine before age 18.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed_container\" id=\"fe4d131521eb15ac892f8e577eaa8205\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump said, &quot;In many cases, we were requiring 72 jabs for a beautiful, healthy, lovely, delicate little children.&quot; He didn&#039;t explain where he got that &quot;72,&quot; but experts have said it appears to separately count every possible dose of a flu vaccine and Covid vaccine before age 18.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daniel Dale (@ddale8) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ddale8\/status\/2086901505731305493?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump added during E.O. signing, \u201cI wanna find what\u2019s going on with autism. It\u2019s many, many times what it used to be years ago, and it gets progressively worse, and we\u2019ve had progressively more and more vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., promised Trump that he would use warp speed to get to the bottom of vaccines and autism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will examine every biologically plausible hypothesis and leave no legitimate scientific question unexplored. Mr. President, you have told us you want answers, and so do I. We have just over two years to finish the work and I know you\u2019re impatient, and we\u2019re moving with an urgency that that deadline demands,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/cnns-daniel-dale-drops-scalding-fact-check-on-trumps-vaccines-and-autism-claims-hes-said-it-over-and-over-falsely\/\">CNN\u2019s Daniel Dale Drops Scalding Fact Check on Trump\u2019s Vaccines and Autism Claims: He\u2019s Said it \u2018Over and Over, Falsely\u2019<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\">Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP Photo\/Jacquelyn Martin) CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale dropped a scalding take on President Donald Trump&#8217;s unfounded claims linking childhood vaccines with autism. Trump made the statements during an executive order signing Monday that splits up the Measels, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) childhood vaccines into three separate shots. 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